http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100518/ARTICLES/100519361?Title=Second-hearing-on-election-suit-produces-no-resolution The two Gainesville residents challenging Craig Lowe's mayoral victory on Tuesday presented a judge a list of 44 names of voters who they suspect voted illegally in the election, but whether that list will even factor into the case remains to be seen.
FL: Supervisor of elections office not meeting demand for cuts, either
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/
blog/2010/05/county_commissioners_get_into.html http://bit.ly/acbvco
One reason: the office has a 17.7 percent increase in costs for elections,
FL: Complaint against Broward elections supervisor dismissed
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-05-18/news/fl-snipes-elections-ruling-broward-20100518_1_mardi-levey-cohen-voting-precincts-snipes Brenda Snipes case involves Mardi Levey Cohen, who lost November 2008 bid for circuit judge
GA: Ga. to sue feds over voter verification
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-05-19/ga-sue-feds-over-voter-verification?v=1274267971 Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed a special attorney general to sue the Obama Justice Department in an effort to gain approval for its citizenship-verification procedures, Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced Wednesday morning.
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/05/18/1270270/hazard-businessman-charged-with.html
HAZARD, Ky. -- Police in Hazard say a businessman has been charged with one count of vote fraud.
Hazard Deputy Police Chief Joseph Engle says 57-year-old Pearl Combs Jr. was arrested Tuesday after a voter told authorities he was paid $20 to vote for certain candidates.
KY: Boone runs out of GOP ballots* (didn't print enough)
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/nkypolitics/2010/05/18/boone-runs-out-of-gop-ballots/
Boone County ran out of Republican ballots just before the polls closed this evening, according to elections officials. Jefferson County, home to Louisville, also ran out of GOP ballots...The paper ballots are used in the new e-Scan voting machines.
Boone ran out in 11 of its 60 precincts, including the Burlington firehouse, where poll workers said they used up more than 100 of their 150 GOP ballots by noon. The precinct ran out of GOP ballots at about 4:20 p.m., poll workers said.
The shortage didn't disrupt voting -- poll workers simply diverted Republican voters to the e-Slate voting machines instead.
MN: MINNESOTA'S ELECTIONS -- TRANSPARENT, VERIFIABLE, AND ACCURATE.
http://www.ceimn.org/minnesota%E2%80%99s-elections-%E2%80%94-transparent-verifiable-and-accurate Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and Common Cause Minnesota release a report that refutes erroneous claims about the 2008 US Senate recount and Minnesota's election law and practice, made by the Center of the American Experiment.
MO: Cooper County Clerk Darryl Kempf testifies against advance-voting proposal
http://www.boonvilledailynews.com/news/x1381051434/Cooper-County-Clerk-Darryl-Kempf-testifies-against-advance-voting-proposal
The Missouri Association of County Clerks opposed the bill because of the potential cost of advance voting on municipalities,
NC: New vote totals mean no runoff for Queen's Republican challenger*
http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/05_10/
05_19_10/fr_no_runoff.html http://bit.ly/9ZVQEs
An election night glitch in McDowell County led to some votes being counted two or even three times instead of just once, skewing the results in the Republican primary for a state Senate seat spanning six mountain counties, including Haywood.
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McDowell County's election glitch happened when transferring electronic results from one computer to another. Results are sent electronically from polling locations to county election headquarters. At headquarters, they are transferred from one computer to another. In that process, votes from some precincts were transferred multiple times.
NC: Election numbers wrong* (5/10 older article we missed)
Six local presincts counted twice, N.C. Senate race changes
http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/news/2010/may/11/election-numbers-wrong-ar-75310/
Due to errors made by local election officials, the results from six precincts in McDowell County were accidentally counted more than once on primary night.
NC: Elections board tosses complaints about helping voters
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/may/18/elections-board-tosses-complaints-about-election/ The Forsyth County Board of Elections this afternoon turned aside three protests that charged that candidates and their supporters gave voters illegal help during early voting before the May 4 primary.
NY: Voters cry foul play*
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/voters-1274051-voting-district.html
Lake Luzerne -- ...For the first time, voters say there was just one voting machine instead of two. Record voter turn-out combined with a single voting machine meant some voters had to wait hours to cast their vote
OH: Ohio Supreme Court denies mayor's suit against elections board
http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/article/20100518
/UPDATES01/100518006http://bit.ly/aRx26B The board found that Ross lives at 3029 Alan Road, outside Bucyrus city limits. Under the Ohio Revised Code, elected officials must reside in the area they were elected to represent.
OH: Ballot that led to worker quitting à ‚¬ ¨is disqualified* (Montgomery Co)
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/election/ballot-that-led-to-worker-quitting-is-disqualified-714259.html
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